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This resource relating to 1 Kings 3:5-12 provides a poem by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) featuring a church grounded in faith, work, and nature.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: 1 Kings 3:5-12
CLASSIC POEM:
Country Church
Liberty Hyde Bailey
In some great day
The country church
Will find its voice
And it will say:
I stand in the fields
Where the wide earth yields
Her bounties of fruit and of grain,
Where the furrows turn
Till the plowshares burn
As they come round and round again;
Where the workers pray
With their tools all day
In sunshine and shadow and rain.
And I bid them tell
Of the crops they sell
And speak of the work they have done;
I speed ev’ry manIn his hope and plan
And follow his day with the sun;
And grasses and trees
The birds and the bees
I know and I feel ev’ry one.
And out of it all
As the seasons fall
I build my great temple alway;
I point to the skies,
But my footstone lies
In commonplace work of the day;
For I preach the worth
Of the native earth,—
To love and to work is to pray.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Work Song (Part II)
Wendell Berry
If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it,
[ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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1 Kings 3:5-12
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 12 (Ordinary Time 17)
Date:
Monday, July 24, 2023